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7th May 2011

555 Contest Thank You

A quick video thanking everyone involved in the 555 contest using one of my prizes.

4 comments.

8th January 2011

Alan's Crazy Ideas Episode #1: CT Scanning Khufu with Cosmic Rays

Idea of tomographic reconstruction of the internal structure of the Great Pyramid of Giza using cosmic ray muons.

9 comments.

8th December 2009

LOL Can Christmas Tree

Some technical Yahoos assemble an office Christmas tree from over 430 soft drink cans.

1 comment.

24th February 2009

30 Metre QRSS Beacon Calibrated

I finally sit down and calibrate the front-panel controls of the QRSS beacon.

Parent article: 30 Metre QRSS Beacon.

20th December 2008

MFJ-269 Review

Peter VK2TPM loans me his MFJ-269 to try out.

5 comments.

2nd December 2008

Spam OK in AU - Just become a Political Party

I complain in vain to ACMA about spam from Citizens Electoral Council of Australia...

3 comments.

22nd November 2008

MFJ-207 Review

My take on the MFJ-207 HF antenna bridge.

Contains 1 sub-article.

5 comments.

18th October 2008

Website Changes

New "clean" URLs for the website and a new calculator engine.

4 comments.

20th August 2008

Antenna Experiments are Great Teaching Aids

Some recent erudition from experiments on the 30 metre antennas.

3rd August 2008

Beacon Reports

Summary of the reports received for the 80 metre beacon experiment.

Parent article: 80 Metre CW Beacon.

3 comments.

26th January 2008

Australia Day 2008

Some images and words from this Australia Day.

2 comments.

17th January 2008

What's going on with Tcard?

That on-again, off-again disaster sited on ancient Sydney buses.

1 comment.

4th January 2008

Parametric Oscillator Experiment

Experiments with an RF degenerate parametric oscillator using several different non-linear devices.

3 comments.

31st December 2007

Non-Linearity, Harmonic Generation and Frequency Mixing

A discussion on how non-linear systems produce harmonic and intermodulation distortion.

1 comment.

12th December 2007

The Agony of the About Me page

I try to write an "about me" page.

8 comments.